rglullis

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can’t write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees.

They can. There are plenty of companies offering Mastodon hosting.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The code is AGPL. They can't do open core.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But then why do you worry about the ap_id patterns from other software?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So, I’ve rewritten the search / search boxes in Tesseract to skip the search and directly resolve activity pub URLs for users, posts, comments, and communities. I’m loving this as it makes things so much faster and easier.

Isn't that the whole point of webfinger? Moreover, why would you paint yourself into a corner and hardcode the logic for all the different types of services, if ActivityPub uses JSON-LD and therefore provides a straightforward method for document dereferencing?

I'm not trying to be snarky. It's just that I'm writing ActivityPub server where the id of each object is just an ULID, because to the server there is zero difference between serving the information about an actor or an activity.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 1 month ago

Safer in the sense of "less likely to go down or disappear".

[–] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you are willing to have professional support and also support the underlying projects: Communick offers accounts only for paying-members. $29/year gives you an account on Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix, and we pledge to give 20% of the profits to the fediverse projects that we offer.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

instance size is not necessarily a strong signal that the instance is safer.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

XMPP is for private messages, not public discussion.

XMPP is just the transport. You can build a public social network on top of XMPP just fine.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

WebSub solved the efficiency issue, no?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, but almost no developer is looking at ActivityPub as a protocol to "add a social layer to their websites and applications". Instead, we are stuck in this "let's replicate the centralized social networks! With blackjack! And hookers! And ActivityPub!" way of thinking.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There’s a reason why Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are separate sites, and why none have tried to implement the UI or feature set of the other.

Yes, the reason is that corporations can not profit from an unsiloed web of data, so they all created their own walled gardens and successfully fooled users into believing that the UI needs to be tightly coupled with the data they host.

having 3 different tabs open with the 3 different kinds of content/conversations just makes a lot more sense to me.

What would be stopping us from having these tabs using the same data from the social graph?

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